Severe lung fibrosis requires an invasive fibroblast phenotype regulated by hyaluronan and CD44

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 208, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1459-1471

  Li, Yuejuan ^a   Jiang, Dianhua ^a   Liang, Jiurong ^a   Meltzer, Eric B ^a   Gray, Alice ^a   Miura, Riu ^b   Wogensen, Lise ^c   Yamaguchi, Yu ^b   Noble, Paul W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Sanford Children's Health Research Center   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CD44V ANTIGEN; HYALURONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG FIBROSIS; MESENCHYME CELL; MORTALITY; MYOFIBROBLAST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 79960354059     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 15409538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20102510     Document Type: Article

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